TY - JOUR N2 - Due to the difficulty of detecting traces of organic acid mixture in an aqueous sample and the complexity of resolving UV-Vis spectra effectively, a combinatory method based on a self-made radical electric focusing solid phase extraction (REFSPE) device, UV-Vis detection and partial least squares (PLS) calculation is proposed here. In this study, REFSPE was used to enhance the extraction process of analytes between the aqueous phase and the membrane phase to enrich the trace of mixed organic acid efficiently. Then, the analytes, which were eluted from the adsorption film by ethanol with the assistance of an ultrasonic cleaning machine, were detected with UV-Vis spectrophotometry. After that, the PLS method was introduced to solve the problem of overlapping peaks in UV-Vis spectra of mixed substances and to quantify each compound. The linearly dependent coefficients between the predicted value of the model and the actual concentration of the sample were all higher than 0.99. The limit values of detection for benzoic acid, phthalic acid and p-toluene sulfonic acid were found at 9.9 µg/L, 12.2 µg/L and 13.8 µg/L with the relative recovery values between 84.8% and 117.9%. The RSD (n = 20) values of each component are 1.17%, 1.11% and 0.86%, respectively. Therefore, the proposed combined method can determine traces of complex materials in an aqueous sample efficiently and has wonderful potential applications. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/104028/PDF/art05.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/104028 PY - 2018 IS - No 2 KW - chemo-metrics KW - UV-Vis spectrophotometer KW - radial electric focusing solid phase extraction KW - mixedorganic acids A1 - Guo Yugao A1 - Liu Xia A1 - Liu Jianyi A1 - Bian Xihui A1 - Zhang Qingyin A1 - Pan Jie A1 - Wan Dong PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation VL - vol. 25 DA - 2018.06.15 T1 - UV-Vis spectroscopic detection coupled with chemometrics for the measurement of mixed organic acids in water samples enriched by radial electric focusing solid phase extraction UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/104028 T2 - Metrology and Measurement Systems ER -